The Lexington Container Store (link in previous post) is just down the road from me, been there checking out the whiskey barrels. The "C" grade is what you want. They're authentic and still have that whiskey/bourbon smell!

I'm not sure if you needed full or half barrels but i know that the Home Depots in harford county get half barrels for their garden season every year. They're like 20 bucks a half barrel if i remember right.....most of the time you can even get them cheaper if you buy in bulk from them because they want to get rid of them as fast as possible. I work for a home depot that had them and they were such a pain in ass for us we ended up selling them at like 5-10 dollars a half to a local garden center who was interested.

Yes. We called a winery and bought an entire flat bed worth of wine barrels. We had them shipped to us. You can buy as many as you want. These are all used ones so the cost was affordable. You saw a 100 of them at Lemp... the real deal they weigh a ton each!